In a clear, direct, and concise manner Michael Vlach gives one of the best presentation and defense of dispensational hermeneutics. He doesn't even need a big tome to refute non-dispensational hermeneutics because one can easily follow his arguments from Scripture and see that it is accurate and faithful to the truth unlike the many vague and Scripture-twisting words that non-dispensationalists employ to get around the truth.
All Scripture is God breathed and given for us to understand, believe, love, and live out. It is not given to ignore, doubt, reinterpret, or even hate some parts (esp the Old Testament) in preference of other parts. The word of God is about God not us so we need not alter God's chosen storyline just to fit ourselves in where we are not supposed to as non-dispensationalists often do when they push some things out of the biblical narrative that in their opinion are irrelevant for the church or individual salvation like for example the continuing significance of Israel and the nations in the Bible's grand story.
He explained ten hermeneutical principles associated with Dispensationalism’s understanding of the Bible’s storyline. These are:
1. Consistent Use of Grammatical-Historical Hermeneutics to All Scripture
2. Consistent Contextual Interpretation of Old Testament Prophecies
3. Passage Priority: The Meaning of Any Bible Passage Is Found in That Passage
4. Old Testament Prophecies not Repeated in the New Testament Remain Relevant
5. Old Testament Eschatology Expectations Are Reaffirmed in the New Testament
6. Progress of Revelation Does Not Cancel or Transform Unconditional Promises to the Original Audience
7. Fulfillments occur with the Two Comings of Jesus
8. Partial Fulfillments of Old Testament Prophecies
9. Jesus as Means of Fulfillment of the Old Testament
10. Types, Yes! Typological Interpretation, No!
And contrasted them with seven interpretive assumptions often associated with non-dispensationalism:
(1) New Testament Priority over the Old Testament;
(2) Nonliteral Fulfillments of Old Testament Prophecies;
(3) Spiritualization;
(4) Typological Interpretation;
(5) Storyline Change Language;
(6) Jesus as “Fulfillment” Means Transforming Old Testament Expectations; and
(7) Emphasis on First Coming Fulfillment.
This book is more than a defense of a theological system. It is a defense of God's faithfulness to His word, the clarity and trustworthiness of God's way of communication, and God's infinite wisdom as shown in His amazing acts and wonderful multi-dimensional plan in history with the main protagonist of the story--the last Adam, the ultimate seed of the Woman, Abraham, and David, the True Israel, the Law-giving Prophet like Moses, the High Priest in the order of Melchizedek, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the Word of God in the flesh, the Head of the Church, the soon coming Judge and King of the world, none other than the Son of God Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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